Racism and Colonization with Meleiza Figueroa at the Democracy Convention (Video)

Meleiza Figueroa discusses how Colonization is more accurate vernacular than racism, and how capitalism classifies people to exploit them at the 2017 Democracy Convention during the Basics of Solidarity & Racial Justice panel.

Meleiza Figueroa is a Ph.D. candidate in geography at the University of California at Berkeley and a producer at KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles. She was head researcher on the 2005 film “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.” She is a longtime social justice activist and organizer in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.

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